Ray McGovern: Bush in His Own Words – US Intelligence Thwarted Attack on Iran
McGovern has read the new Bush Book and gives a fascinating villain vs hero analysis (w some of his friends at CIA as background sources I’m sure) of the push to go to war with Iran in 2007 when the NIE declared that Iran had stopped working on a nuclear weapon four years earlier. The villains are obvious (Bush/Cheney/Israel/neocons..) – one villain, current DNI director and former Air Force Gen. James Clapper, is still around. The heroes were Joint Chiefs Chairman Mike Mullen and then-CENTCOM commander Adm. William Fallon – according the McGovern, they were the “top military brass who convinced Bush that Cheney, his neocon friends and Olmert had no idea of the chaos that war with Iran would unleash” .. more heroes please – mab .. read more
This entry was posted on Thursday, November 25th, 2010 at 9:33 AM and filed under Articles, FBI/CIA/NSA/DHS/DEA, Foreign Affairs, Middle East, Military, Peace. Follow comments here with the RSS 2.0 feed. Skip to the end and leave a response. Trackbacks are closed.
